That's why this will never happen. Nor should it, voting should be completely private, there should not even be the slimmest chance that your vote will be recorded as belonging to you.
Here in the UK the voting slips are in numbered books and are ripped out and given to you. The Poll clerk then writes your voter number on the stub. Many tales of Special Branch (the more politicized police) turning up at town halls after the election and picking up the piles of communist/facist/socialist voters to be checked against the electoral registers. It's incredible that more people haven't kicked up a fuss about it.
It has been pointed out that the dominance of homo sapiens over neandertals is the ONLY time anyone makes arguments about larger brain/body ratio having any negative influence on the evolution of a species. This is especially true of primate evolution.
True story. England, 7 or 8 years ago. One Sunday afternoon, was chatting with a friend on landline phones. Conversation turned to Echelon and "how you've just got to say a few key words like, bomb, guns, Belfast" and the phone line went tap-tap-tap. We sat there in silence for a few seconds.
The coincidence of the words and the electronic noise is too much, even if friends point out that a proper covert system wouldn't have made any noise.
The Arctic Oscillation and the North Atlantic, are roughly the same thing- NAO is the major chord of the AO. Neither of them are true 'oscillations', more statistical averages. The PNA is basically governed by ENSO. Seen little relevance in the AAO (await correction with thanks). PDO is the tricky one- found by a fish scientist (climatologist envy?), it governs the largest energies of any of the systems- but what does it do (ditto on the thanks)?
ENSO is the big one- a true hemispheric mass transfer, global teleconnections, on an interannual timescale. Can we predict it? No. Do we know what actually causes it (some good guesses of course)? No.
Of course next to volcanism, this is all minor league stuff. The skies are awfully clear right now, and another Pinatoubo, Agung, Krakatoa etc., will make a real difference to climate.
Always astonishes me when visiting the US, how blind people are to the web of cables above their heads. It defines the view of many populated parts of the country. Please look up and realise just how damn ugly all those cables are. They look like a bunch of temporary repairs. Almost 3rd world.
Also if they were within the M25 there wouldn't be much chance of finding them as all the mobile networks were jammed beyond capacity; assume that the the tracking facility would be the same?
Different ratings would be useful. Some sort of legal tariff that distinguishes between reckless drivers of different sized vehicles- you jump a red light in a larger car you are more likely to kill/injure other road users. Let's face it, drivers of SUVs perceive "security"; let this be recognised in the courts.
Read here a few months back a horrific tale of huge watch lists, perpetual reversion and being ground down to submission. Totally agree there has to be a significantly better way of protecting academic value. The "current no. of edits" is not a great start; most changes to "my" (sic) pages have been minor edits, many seemingly gratuitous and increasing their edit scores. One page is obscure information (not worth academically publishing but certainly of use as a reference) that I'm definitely an "expert" in. This will count for nowt if someone decides they "know better".
This is the problem with Nature's call last month for experts to get involved- why should they have to keep it under review? Extremely inefficient. But perhaps this IS the price of stopping the Ogilvys?
The only source for those figures quoted in the Dresden article was Irving's book, but since there was no citation in the text of the article to suggest where those figures came from, who would know except an expert?
Well change it then, giving these reasons.
I agree thouugh with the previous poster that the main section on the bombing of Dresden would be where one looks. This continued use of one of Goebbels' last piece of propaganda is an oversight.
Here, here. I received today a SMS message from an international no. I didn't know. Scam? Wikipedia produced the exact answer in less than 30 s (Greek mobile phone so probably a wrong no.- I have an easily transposed combination). Fantastic.
Oh and I received a Christmas card, 62C postage. Flabbergasted. Another $50 from me today.
The lander's weakest point was the descent system. 3 months before the delivery date they discovered that the parachutes were too small and had to chop more vital kilos off the science mission. They were already aiming for one of the lowest parts of Mars, i.e. longest path and highest atmospheric density. Before Beagle landed, a colleague reported that in a lecture the previous summer, Prof. Pillinger said that the parachute's size wasn't critical as it 'collects air' which helps slow the lander down...
Prof. Pillinger is, understandably, clutching at straws. The science (and academic PR) aspects of Beagle were first class. The engineering (i.e. the expensive bit), was totally underfunded and was eventually overwhelmed. If he can prove that the concept was fine and dandy, but something small went wrong, then he can (with much greater authority) go and ask for money for a new one. However, it's unlikely after ESA's board of inquiry, that Prof. Pillinger will ever be involved at such a senior level again.
http://www.esa.int/esaCP/SEMLKAHHZTD_index_0.html
...make me pay a subscription to keep my definitions current...
Ah yes, subscription. Which MS program was it that removes the spyware, is new on the market and trying to become as indispensable to MS users as any antivirus kit?
Wonder if this currently free software has any future revenue plans?
Don't be unhappy; this is actually 'news'. The majority of these types of stories seem to be derived from the BBC and their headlines are anything but new. Good to see something that isn't just recycled press releases but derived from 'original' sources, i.e. an Italian site reporting on the Arab world that's covering news of an Italian conference about the Arab world.
Abslolutely spot-on. Rob Andrew (a pretty famous rugby player) was on the radio a couple of months back appealing for the person who burgled his flat to give him his laptop back; it had all his personal photos from winning the Rugby world cup (i.e. irreplaceable). When asked why he didn't get them printed off, or have a back-up he mumbled about moving house, too much stuff already, taking too much time.
I've been working with digital imagery (satellite) for the last 15 years; formats have gone from dedicated 250 mb disks the size of 20 stacked frisbees to video-tape sized DLT's with 80 Gb on them. 1/4" tapes (both 1250 and 6250), CD's, Dat, Exabyte (8mm) - have at some stage had a data failure from off all of them. Images are only definitely available if they've been kept online and transferred across systems at hardware upgrades.
Here here. Turn the sound down, fast forward, but... It just feels wrong watching an episode after listening to that music; if it came from my radio I'd be literally jumping for the off button.
Also having flashbacks to Scott Bakula in a dress from the opening credits of Quantum Leap doesn't help.
As mentioned in the previous post, it uses the Earth to fill out the ccd arrays with uniform coverage to see how they react to light at an individual cell level- most stratiform cloud decks will do this (hell, even a clear ocean). Pointing the Hubble at cloudy Earth, is not the same as the bright sun; would you look at the sun directly? What about a cloud?
And unless I was terminally obscure/sarcastic, that's what the previous posts were about.
Earth flats are not at all the same thing as looking at the Earth directly.
So what are they doing? How are they viewing it 'indirectly'? Please explain.
UV-sensitive MAMA detectors would be destroyed.
So? Who mentioned MAMA? Why would that be looking at Earth?
CCDs would saturate rapidly.
And? They're ccds. It's a calibration. They want to look for errors in the ccd pixels so they want them to saturate. They need a handy bright, wide, target...
Oh, and the parent's post's mention of the solar panels flexing problem and the spying community's reaction (i.e. they knew all about it) has been covered in Eric Chaisson's 'Hubble Wars'. That's one of the reasons that the solar panel design was changed (see first servicing mission, STS-61).
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What will happen to the US economy when this all gets traded up for the new shiny stuff...
Here in the UK the voting slips are in numbered books and are ripped out and given to you. The Poll clerk then writes your voter number on the stub. Many tales of Special Branch (the more politicized police) turning up at town halls after the election and picking up the piles of communist/facist/socialist voters to be checked against the electoral registers. It's incredible that more people haven't kicked up a fuss about it.
It has been pointed out that the dominance of homo sapiens over neandertals is the ONLY time anyone makes arguments about larger brain/body ratio having any negative influence on the evolution of a species. This is especially true of primate evolution.
The coincidence of the words and the electronic noise is too much, even if friends point out that a proper covert system wouldn't have made any noise.
When released the recordings were subject to a D-Notice http://www.dnotice.org.uk/ and had little publicity; there must be something behind it.
The Arctic Oscillation and the North Atlantic, are roughly the same thing- NAO is the major chord of the AO. Neither of them are true 'oscillations', more statistical averages. The PNA is basically governed by ENSO. Seen little relevance in the AAO (await correction with thanks). PDO is the tricky one- found by a fish scientist (climatologist envy?), it governs the largest energies of any of the systems- but what does it do (ditto on the thanks)? ENSO is the big one- a true hemispheric mass transfer, global teleconnections, on an interannual timescale. Can we predict it? No. Do we know what actually causes it (some good guesses of course)? No. Of course next to volcanism, this is all minor league stuff. The skies are awfully clear right now, and another Pinatoubo, Agung, Krakatoa etc., will make a real difference to climate.
Always astonishes me when visiting the US, how blind people are to the web of cables above their heads. It defines the view of many populated parts of the country. Please look up and realise just how damn ugly all those cables are. They look like a bunch of temporary repairs. Almost 3rd world.
Yeah, and if the Chinese got their Cuban friends to let them fly up and down the East coast you'd be happy?
Also if they were within the M25 there wouldn't be much chance of finding them as all the mobile networks were jammed beyond capacity; assume that the the tracking facility would be the same?
What the hell would you be doing looking through a "backyard" $5K telescope for?
Different ratings would be useful. Some sort of legal tariff that distinguishes between reckless drivers of different sized vehicles- you jump a red light in a larger car you are more likely to kill/injure other road users. Let's face it, drivers of SUVs perceive "security"; let this be recognised in the courts.
This is the problem with Nature's call last month for experts to get involved- why should they have to keep it under review? Extremely inefficient. But perhaps this IS the price of stopping the Ogilvys?
Well change it then, giving these reasons.
I agree thouugh with the previous poster that the main section on the bombing of Dresden would be where one looks. This continued use of one of Goebbels' last piece of propaganda is an oversight.
Oh and I received a Christmas card, 62C postage. Flabbergasted. Another $50 from me today.
Prof. Pillinger is, understandably, clutching at straws. The science (and academic PR) aspects of Beagle were first class. The engineering (i.e. the expensive bit), was totally underfunded and was eventually overwhelmed. If he can prove that the concept was fine and dandy, but something small went wrong, then he can (with much greater authority) go and ask for money for a new one. However, it's unlikely after ESA's board of inquiry, that Prof. Pillinger will ever be involved at such a senior level again. http://www.esa.int/esaCP/SEMLKAHHZTD_index_0.html
Yeah, but what were they doing with them before the invention of the gun?
Ah yes, subscription. Which MS program was it that removes the spyware, is new on the market and trying to become as indispensable to MS users as any antivirus kit?
Wonder if this currently free software has any future revenue plans?
Don't be unhappy; this is actually 'news'. The majority of these types of stories seem to be derived from the BBC and their headlines are anything but new. Good to see something that isn't just recycled press releases but derived from 'original' sources, i.e. an Italian site reporting on the Arab world that's covering news of an Italian conference about the Arab world.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,,1476560,00.h tml
The paragraph regarding the 'wife-beater' question is quite illuminating.
I've been working with digital imagery (satellite) for the last 15 years; formats have gone from dedicated 250 mb disks the size of 20 stacked frisbees to video-tape sized DLT's with 80 Gb on them. 1/4" tapes (both 1250 and 6250), CD's, Dat, Exabyte (8mm) - have at some stage had a data failure from off all of them. Images are only definitely available if they've been kept online and transferred across systems at hardware upgrades.
http://www.house.gov/sensenbrenner/index.htm
Phew.
http://www.spotimage.fr/html/_167_171_810_.php Launched 1986
Aster 15 m stereographic
http://asterweb.jpl.nasa.gov/content/03_data/01_Da ta_Products/DEM.PDF
First launched 1999. $3600 sq km cost US$60 and are public access.
IKONOS 1 m stereographic
http://www.spaceimaging.com/products/ikonos/stereo .htm
Here here. Turn the sound down, fast forward, but... It just feels wrong watching an episode after listening to that music; if it came from my radio I'd be literally jumping for the off button. Also having flashbacks to Scott Bakula in a dress from the opening credits of Quantum Leap doesn't help.
And unless I was terminally obscure/sarcastic, that's what the previous posts were about.
So what are they doing? How are they viewing it 'indirectly'? Please explain.
UV-sensitive MAMA detectors would be destroyed.
So? Who mentioned MAMA? Why would that be looking at Earth?
CCDs would saturate rapidly.
And? They're ccds. It's a calibration. They want to look for errors in the ccd pixels so they want them to saturate. They need a handy bright, wide, target...
Oh, and the parent's post's mention of the solar panels flexing problem and the spying community's reaction (i.e. they knew all about it) has been covered in Eric Chaisson's 'Hubble Wars'. That's one of the reasons that the solar panel design was changed (see first servicing mission, STS-61).